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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

Florence Nightingale

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Better Patient Refusal Tea
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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Activity Moral Possible Sketch World
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Time Way World
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Expectation Fear Harm Patience Surprise
For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Best Care Important Sick
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Better Myself Nurse Word
Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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Affection Herself Love Woman
Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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Body Effect Mindset Volume Writing
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Better Content Reach World
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Harm Hospital Necessary Principle Sick Strange
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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Communion Divine God Holy Mystic Nature
To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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God Measurement Purpose Understand
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Finish Learning Live Nurse Ourselves
No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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Education Excitement Myself Passion School Woman
Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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Remember Scream Yourself
Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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Chance Embrace Ignorance Marriage Offering Woman

I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

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